Old Dogs and New Tricks? What We're Learning About Brain Health: An Interview with Dr. Christopher Norris & Dr. Elizabeth Head

Recent findings are showing that old dogs may actually be teaching us new things! Dr. Christopher Norris and Dr. Elizabeth Head join the podcast to share their new findings from their NIH funded study that was recently published in the Journal of Neuroscience!

Dr. Christopher Norris is a professor in the Department of Pharmacology & Nutritional Sciences and also serves as the Associate Director at the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging and is a Co-Director of the Sanders-Brown Intravital Imaging Facility.

Dr. Elizabeth Head is a professor, and Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of California-Irvine.  She is the Director of the Experimental Pathology Program and has over 266 publications since 1996.

For more information about Dr. Norris and his lab, visit https://norris.createuky.net/.

For more information about Dr. Head and her lab at UC Irvine, visit https://sites.mind.uci.edu/headlab/.

To read more about their study, visit https://www.jneurosci.org/content/44/20/e2366232024. To see their imaging on the cover of the Journal of Neuroscience, visit https://www.jneurosci.org/content/44/20.cover-expansion.

For more information about the UK Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, visit us as https://medicine.uky.edu/centers/sbcoa.